{"id":52365,"date":"2024-10-13T13:19:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=52365"},"modified":"2024-10-13T13:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T08:19:14","slug":"rawalpindi-ring-road-project-revised-pc-i-sent-for-approval-amid-cost-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/rawalpindi-ring-road-project-revised-pc-i-sent-for-approval-amid-cost-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rawalpindi Ring Road Project: Revised PC-I sent for approval amid cost escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-university-postpones-examinations-in-islamabad-rawalpindi\/\">Rawalpindi Development Authority<\/a> (RDA) has submitted a revised PC-I for the Rawalpindi Ring Road project to the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) in Lahore, after addressing concerns raised by the Central Development Working Party (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cdwp-gives-go-ahead-to-six-projects-worth-rs-61-24bn\/\">CDWP<\/a>) regarding the project&#8217;s increased cost from Rs32 billion to Rs39 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The CDWP had requested the RDA to adjust the escalation by reducing other overhead charges while maintaining the overall project cost.<\/p>\n<p>According to a senior RDA official, Nespak, the project&#8217;s consultant, calculated the increased construction cost based on inflation, bringing the total to Rs39.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The official also stated that Rs1 billion has already been spent on construction, and the project will gain momentum after the revised PC-I is approved. The project was initially approved by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/economic-take-off-pakistans-ascendancy-under-pm-shahbaz-sharif\/\">ECNEC<\/a>) in December 2021 for Rs23.606 billion, with a completion period of 36 months.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Ring Road will span 38.3 km, featuring five interchanges at Baanth, Chak Baili Khan, Adiala Road, Chakri Road, and Thalian.<\/p>\n<p>An industrial zone will be established around the highway, designed for a speed of 120km\/h with six lanes. The project&#8217;s complexity led to an extended completion date of September 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Development Authority (RDA) has submitted a revised PC-I for the Rawalpindi Ring Road project to the Provincial Development Working Party (PDWP) in Lahore, after addressing concerns raised by the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) regarding the project&#8217;s increased cost from Rs32 billion to Rs39 billion. The CDWP had requested the RDA to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":52366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[2789,5187,20999],"class_list":["post-52365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pakistan","tag-rawalpindi-development-authority","tag-rawalpindi-ring-road-project","tag-provincial-development-working-party-pdwp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52367,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52365\/revisions\/52367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}